2011 Annual Letter from Bill Gates. Why is it so important to end polio? Eradication will have three huge benefits. The first is that getting rid of polio will mean that no child will die or be paralyzed by the disease in the future. One thing most people don’t realize is that if we don’t finish the job on eradication, we will lose a lot of the ground we’ve gained over the past two decades.
The disease will not stay at its current low level. If we don’t get rid of it, it will spread back into countries where it’s been eliminated, and it will kill and paralyze children who used to be safe. The second benefit is that the money that will be saved by eradicating polio far exceeds what we are spending on eradication efforts now. The third benefit is that success will energize the field of global health by showing that investments in health lead to amazing victories.
The history of polio and polio eradication is fascinating. The March of Dimes funded research into the first polio vaccine, which was invented by Dr. Even on IDEA's 35th, Special Ed Dollars Aren't Free - Rick Hess Straight Up. Question: What do Arne Duncan, Sarah Palin, Tom Harkin, and Mike Enzi all have in common?
Answer: They, along with just about every other figure in education, turn into pandering sops the moment somebody mentions special education or IDEA. They'll dwell on how the feds need to fully fund their share, the rights of these families, and the need to do a better job of identifying and addressing special needs. All fair enough points. The problem is that none of our leaders can then bring themselves to utter the simple truth: "But we have an obligation to serve all our children, and responsible leadership means we have to weigh costs and benefits when it comes to allocating dollars, time, and energy.
" Instead, they'll hide behind sentimental stories, legal requirements (ignoring that the laws are just codifying federal policies), and a determined silence regarding the staggering costs of special education today. Brain Balance Achievement Centers & The Brain Balance Program.
Dennis Debbaudt's Autism Risk Management. Michael R. Bristow, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine. Information on Autism and Asperger Syndrome from Stephen Shore - Links. The goal of this page is to provide highly useful links for people seeking more information about autism and Asperger Syndrome. The small number of links is intentional to keep focused and to avoid having the user get lost in a sea of links. Each linked page generally provide a list of additional links for more resources. A cognitive-developmental systems approach for working with children on the autism spectrum. The Miller Method believes that every child, no matter how disordered appearing, is still trying to make sense of a confusing environment. Also is the only method that uses elevated structures as a prosthesis for engendering body to environmental awareness as well as focusing attention. reatment and ducation of utistic and related ommunication andicapped hildren.
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Three Things Parents Should Know About Tactile Communication - FamilyConnect. Hi, my name is Dr. June Downing. I'm a Professor Emeritus from California State University, Northridge. What are three things you want to ensure that parents know about tactual communication? I think that one of the most important things for parents to know is that tactile communication is one form of a variety of different kinds of communication that all other...that all ways for that child to communicate, such as body language, facial expressions, natural gestures, any kinds of movements, vocalizations that the child may make, use of objects, everything is part of a communications system for that child.
So it's not just one thing that the child is going to use to communicate but a number of different things that the child is going to use. And I think finally the third thing I think is very important is to realize that there is really no universal system out there, unless of course you're using a tactile American Sign Language.
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